Contents, Volume 14 #3

July/August 1996

Dossier

Summer Medley

African banking debacle,
the animal rights debate,
chickens in Chiapas
and much more

Leader
The last ten years have shown that visionaries are the only realists. by Robert Chodos (p.2)

Money in the Bank
A human-scale development organization crosses paths with a vast but shoddy African banking net- work and an even vaster international system. by Daniel James Wright (p.6)

St. Mungo
Sixth-century Scottish bishop helped Christianize Britain in small strokes. by Mary Rose Donnelly (p.13)

Are We Ethical in Our Use of Animals?
The animal rights debate is one of our oldest philosophical discussions, beginning when our ancestors clubbed their first mastodon. by Diane Baltaz (p.14)

Chiapas: A Reporter's Diary
A search for the Zapatista revolution yields a dying rabbit, a pregnant cat and chickens that don't give eggs. by Louisa Blair (p.16)

The Next Millennium Belongs to the Laity
There is a hidden blessing in the stance of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church against ordaining women and married men. by Douglas McCarthy SJ (p.19)

Symbol of Unity, Reality of Division

I Know Only My Hunger--and It Is Large. by Rev. Donna E. Schaper (p.20)

Outsiders Feeling the Pain of Separation. by Rev. John Catoir (p.21)

Film

A Corner of the World Is the World
If the heart is often under attack in life, it's whole and well in Wayne Wang's movies Smoke and Blue in the Face. by Don Kerr (p.22)

Books

George Grant in Conversation
By David Cayley. reviewed by Jack Costello SJ (p.24)

The Piano Man's Daughter
By Timothy Findley.
The Lost Oasis
By Patrick Roscoe.
reviewed by Monty Williams SJ (p.25)

Bookshelf Gleanings
A muddled attempt to bring together Jean-Paul Sartre and Leonardo Boff. (p.27)

Features

Colloquy
Cooperative endeavor with the Spirit. by Ven. Richard J. Berryman (p.4)

Points
Marx the counterrevolutionary, the holy darkness and theology as neurocircuitry. (p.5)

Compass Cryptic by Margaret Visser
Captain's fish, mashed prune stock and seamstress's irritation. (p.29)

Testament
Amos among the business columnists. by Janet Somerville (p.29)

Disputatio
We seek clarity knowing that all belief is imperfect. by Brian Massie SJ (p.30)

Distractions by Martin Royackers
Armed with flip charts and markers. (p.31)